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N. P. ANDRUS Appliance for Lighting Looms.

No. 232,102. Patented Sept. 14,1880.

UNITED STATES PAT NT OFFICE.

NEWELL P. ANDRUS, OF PATERSON, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF OF HIS RIGHT TO SAMUEL THORP, OF SAME PLACE.

APPLIANCE FOR LIGHTING LOOMS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 232,102, dated September 14, 1880.

Application filed May 25, 1880.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NEWELL P. ANDRUs, of the city of Paterson, county of Passaic, and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and 5 useful Appliance for the Better Lighting of Looms, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

The object of my invention is theproduction of an appliance that will more effectually and safely light Jacquard looms than any now in use for that purpose.

My invention consists of the following devices, illustrated in Figure 1, which is a side elevation of my newly invented appliance. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same, and Fig. 3 is a sectional view.

01 indicates a slide-bar, made of iron, which is riveted or otherwise secured to standards b, the standards b being secured to the rails cm of the 100111. The standards 0 are made of a suitable length to elevate the slide-bar d to the desired height above the rails of the loom to light the parts requiring the most light, and are placed far enough from the harness of the loom (not here shown, but which is located between the rails ac) to remove alldanget of setting fire to the harness when the light is being used. The slide-bar d is taken 0 along the front part of the loom, and around one end of the same, along the back, to a point even with its starting on the front, which takes the light near enough to the end around which the light does not pass to light all of 5 its parts. That part of the slide-bar d that passes around the end of the loom is madecircular in form, in order to accommodate a bracket, 0, which is adapted to slide on and around the bar 01. The bracket 0 is also adapted by its construction to receive and hold a pipe, 0, as shown in Fig. 1. To the pipe 6 is attached aflexible tube, h. The other (No model.)

end of the flexible tube h is secured to a supply-pipe located above the loom, as shown in Fig. 1, by means of a cock, k, to the pipe 0. Secured to bracket 0 there. is a burner, I), with which the pipe 0 is provided, over which there is suitably arranged a reflector, g, which serves to reflect the light from the burner b.

The gas is caused to flow from the supplypipe through the flexible tube h and pipe 0 to the burner b by turning the cook it. The gas is lighted at the burner b, and may be transferred to any part of the loom desired by simply sliding the bracket 0 over the slide-bar d, the flexible tube It being long enough to admit of the brackets transfer to the place desired.

Looms are now lighted by the ordinary gas-brackets, which are often, by accident or otherwise, thrown in the harness, setting fire thereto, which cannot occur by my new appliance, as the slide-bar is rigidly held in position by the standards, and the bracket can only move as moved on the rigid slide-bar.

Having described my appliance and its mode of operation, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, in a device or appliance for lighting Jacquard looms, is-

1. The combination of the bracket or block 0, adapted to slide on the slide-bar d, pipes c, flexible tube h, cook 70, and reflector g, substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination, with the bracket or block 0, adapted to slide on the slide-bar d, of the slide-bar (1, standards I), and railscta, substantiall y as described, and for the purpose set forth.

NEWELL I. ANDRUS.

Witnesses:

JOHN INGLIS, KITIIE INGLIS. 

